Feminists
have exercised nearly unfettered control of Congress’s social
policy philosophy since the creation of the Great Society. That arrangement,
designed to help a few women in trouble, evolved into an industry executing
the feminist goal of destroying marriage. The ever-escalating demands
to entitle non-marriage and out-of-wedlock procreation never end.

Welfare
state expansions have eviscerated the function of marriage. Marriage
naturally guarantees women the economic support and domestic assistance
of their husbands. The feminist Oleanna
is truly a nightmare burdening women with “doing it all”,
earning a living, raising the children, doing the laundry, and everything
else around the household.

Welfare-state
expansions brought on an explosion of divorce and illegitimacy only
justifying another round of welfare-state expansions. Today, the welfare
state costs approximately 1-trillion annually, nearly the size of the
projected federal deficit, with no end in sight.

Democrats
now hope to double the size of the welfare state by adding health care
to their long list of entitlements. Feminists hope to expand the destruction
of marriage by dragging the medical profession, businesses, and taxpayers
into the grandest expansion the Great Society has ever proposed.

The
National Center for Health Statistics reports
unmarried women aged 25–64 years are about 60% more likely than
married women to lack health insurance coverage. The NCHS message is
unmistakable: “Marriage affects health insurance coverage.
As marriage rates in the United States decline, fewer women will have
the opportunity to obtain health insurance coverage through their spouse.
Marriage can also increase family income and may make health insurance
more affordable.”

The
UCLA Williams Institute recently exposed the other hidden
agenda of National Health Care: entitling same-sex living arrangements,
cohabitation, and dangerous sexual practices. Twenty percent of people
in same-sex couples are uninsured, compared with only 10% of married
people and 15% of the overall population. One-third of unmarried heterosexual
individuals with partners have no insurance coverage.

Would
women support Democrats in upcoming elections if Republicans proposed
answers that would truly and naturally end the structural problems unmarried
women suffer?

Marriage-absence
is the greatest social and economic problem we face. The majority of
costly perennial problems such as poverty, domestic violence, child
abuse and neglect, crime, and lack of access to health care are primarily
predicted by marriage-absence. State and federal legislators should
focus on changing federal and state policies to serve necessary marriage-positive
goals.

Federal
legislators must complete the two most crucial goals not addressed in
1996 federal welfare reform: Improving marriage rates and reducing the
number of children born out of wedlock.

We
rejected “Hillary Care” in the 1990’s. We must again
reject the latest liberal invasion of marriage and look to “Marriage
Values” policies provably beneficial to everyone – especially
women and children.

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We
have an unequivocal choice before us: change federal policies destroying
the institution of heterosexual marriage or tax America into socioeconomic
oblivion. The “family values” landslide of 1994 proved that
voters are smart enough to broadly support sensible pro-family policy.
This time, “Marriage Values” policy changes will get it
right.

Democrats
now hope to double the size of the welfare state by adding health care
to their long list of entitlements. Feminists hope to expand the destruction
of marriage by dragging the medical profession, businesses, and taxpayers
into the grandest expansion the Great Society has ever proposed.